Anglican Communion News Service

The Chairman of the Anglican Communion in New Westminster (ACiNW) - a coalition of 11 parishes that oppose the Diocese’s decision to bless same-sex unions - has written to the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada thanking the House of Bishops for their search “for a resolution of the problem we are experiencing in the Diocese of New Westminster”.

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This is a heart breaking sight. In a place where the relationship between Muslims, Jews and Christians is one of co-operation and goodwill, an attack on a synagogue is an attack on every Muslim, Jew and Christian.

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The Anglican Church of Canada's chief governing council has received a new “framework” to guide the Church's work and mission for the next six years.

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Bishop Terrence Buckle of the Yukon is withdrawing his offer of episcopal oversight to parishes in the diocese of New Westminster that do not agree with the blessing of same-sex unions.

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Canadian Anglican bishops have voted to strike a task force to study what the church should do to provide spiritual care for members who dissent from church policies.

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The controversy in the diocese of New Westminster over whether to bless gay relationships took a grave turn on October 8 as Archbishop David Crawley moved to discipline the diocesan bishop of the Yukon, Terrence Buckle, for asserting "episcopal authority" over disaffected parishes in Vancouver-based diocese.

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The diocese of Ottawa will mark 23 November as Settlement and Reconciliation Sunday.

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"The absence of a permanent Incumbent (rector), and the unwillingness of some members of the parish to search for one through the normal diocesan process, has brought the current crisis to a head," said Bishop Michael Ingham.

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Archbishop David Crawley has expressed gratitude for help and prayers for the people in his diocese who have been affected by forest fires during the last few weeks.

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Churches in the Okanagan region of British Columbia are trying to regroup and determine how to help community residents who are displaced from their homes by forest fires that have threatened the city of Kelowna and left scores of people in suburbs homeless.

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During the second day of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, USA , the Most Revd Michael Peers, Primate of Canada, delivered a presentation to the House of Bishops which focused on two elements: the national church's Aboriginal Healing Fund; and the restoration of funds for mission.

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Clergy in six parishes within the Diocese of New Westminster have been authorised to perform a rite of blessing of committed same sex unions. In so doing, all provisions of the motion passed by Diocesan Synod in June, 2002, are now fulfilled.

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Archbishop Michael Peers, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada since 1986, has announced that he will resign on 1 February 2004.

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The Lutheran World Federation Assembly, which meets in Winnipeg from July 21-31, is expected to draw more than 1,000 Lutherans from around the world, and Anglicans are helping in a significant way.

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Representatives of the federal government and the Anglican Church of Canada will officially sign an agreement on residential schools lawsuits, reached last November, at the church's national office on Tuesday 11 March.

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Parishioners of a local Anglican church are part of the relief effort for the people of Badger, Newfoundland, who were forced out of their homes by a wall of ice after three rivers surged over their banks and converged on the town last Saturday.

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Amid reports that reconciliation talks between the diocese of New Westminster and eight conservative parishes had reached an impasse, cracks have appeared in the parishes' coalition between those who would like to continue dialogue and those who seem ready to accept an offer of an alternative bishop.

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The last of 30 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada have now ratified an agreement with the federal government which caps the church's liability in residential schools litigation at CAN$25 million.

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A US invasion of Iraq at this time would fail to meet any of the theological tests by which war can be justified, Archbishop Michael Peers, the Canadian Anglican Primate, says in a letter to church members.

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Half of the Anglican Church of Canada's 30 dioceses have now ratified an agreement on residential schools reached last November between the church and the federal government.

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Dear Friends,

The past few weeks have marked a watershed in the life of the Anglican Church of Canada. Beginning with the announcement of an agreement with the Government of Canada as to how validated claims of sexual and physical abuse in Indian Residential Schools would be apportioned, we are now in a period of discernment and decision together. In each diocese, a process is, or will be, in place to decide the diocesan response to our national responsibility.

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The Revd John Blyth is on his way to the Philippines to eat little more than rice and greens for days on end and he could not be happier about it.

Mr Blyth, 67, will fill the position of novice co-ordinator in the diocese of Palawan for a chapter of the Melanesian Brotherhood, a religious order based in the Solomon Islands that lives in a remarkably frugal way.

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After years of controversy and faced with bankruptcy, the Anglican Church of Canada has agreed to a deal with the Canadian government to share the costs of thousands of lawsuits brought by Native students who claim that they were abuse while attending residential schools.

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by Leanne Larmondin

The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) of the Anglican Church of Canada has made HIV and AIDS a prime focus of its strategic plan. The organisation made the decision at a recent board meeting.

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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

29 October 2002

A Message to the Church

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Local option 'not the Anglican way'

23 October 2002

Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, who retires this month, has warned Canadian primate Archbishop Michael Peers and the house of bishops to go slowly in deliberations on same-sex blessings and to consult with the Anglican Communion.

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Watching John Rye at work in Africa was an experience like nothing else. He was a huge and volatile weather system in human form, soothing and soft one moment, stern, correct and formal the next, then changing to the balmiest pastoral wind only to shift again to sudden storm.

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'Consultations' with sympathetic primates to be private

The normally public dealings of a group of Anglicans opposed to same-sex blessings in New Westminster have moved behind closed doors on the say-so of a Texas priest.

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Ottawa is expected to be the next Anglican diocese in Canada to consider allowing parishes to bless same-sex relationships, after the diocese of New Westminster in June approved such blessings.

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The Rwandan archbishop who wrote to 12 conservative New Westminster clergy last week with an offer of "ecclesiastical protection" now says the offer was a misunderstanding.

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